SON in LEYTE
“I have been sleeping in fox holes every night,” Pvt. Daniel Hartje writes his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Hartje from his post in Leyte, “and since it rains every night the hole is always filled with water.”
Pvt. Hartje reports finding a 1940 Ford pick-up on the island and soldiers, after working over it for a day, had it running as good as new, though the tires are not so hot and the steering wheel is on the right side.
Hartje’s brother, Petty Officer Lamar Hartje, was reported missing when Corregidor fell and no word has been heard of him since.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Thursday, November 16, 1944, Page 5
Plan Memorial for Larmar Hartje
Memorial services for Lamar Hartje, metalsmith 1/c of the navy, will be held Sunday at 10:30 a. m. at the St. Paul’s Lutheran church in Treynor.
Metalsmith Hartje was killed in action June 11, 1942, and was interred at Corregidor National Cemetery.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Thursday, July 19, 1945, Page 15
